Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne,

20/5/87

T. R. Wilson Esq,

Undersecretary.

Sir.

In reference to my letter of the 2 April

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M to T. Wilson, 2 April 1887.

I have the honor to report for information to the hon. the Acting Chief Secretary, that I shall still require a few weeks more for completing the manuscripts for part I of the "Key to the System of Victorian plants".

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B88.11.02.

The notes for the 1900 species of our indigenous plants, to be used in the characterizing of them, are elaborated long ago; but to put these notes into the dichotomous arrangement, to which I am bound, takes much more time, than I even thought myself, for producing a really useful work. I have for a long while laid all other litterary work aside, to complete the Key, with a view of seeing it early through the press, and I see now, my way clear, to bring this work soon to its conclusion.